Research Summary
Dr. Yan Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging. Dr. Li received her medical degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, Master of Science in Biochemistry from McGill University in Canada, and Ph.D. from the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering.
Dr. Yan Li’s research focuses on developing methods for obtaining reliable metabolic information from the brain to characterize spatial and temporal heterogeneity and the biological behavior during disease time for brain tumors, psychiatric and neurologic diseases. This includes the development of new methods for obtaining whole-brain metabolites and tools for generating metrics of brain neurotransmitters using 3T and 7T MR scanners, implementation of statistical methods to relate metabolic metrics to clinical outcome or measures, and integrating steady-state 1H metabolic imaging with PET, hyperpolarized 13C and advanced MR imaging parameters in order to elucidate the underlying normal and abnormal biological process.
Research Funding
March 8, 2022 - February 28, 2027 - Quantitative Steady-State and Dynamic Metabolic MRI for Evaluating Patients with Glioma , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01CA262630
August 2, 2021 - May 31, 2026 - Neural mechanisms of speech motor control in Autism Spectrum Disorders , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01DC019167
September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2024 - Monitoring Patients with IDH-Mutant Astrocytoma Using Dynamic and Steady-State Metabolic Imaging , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: Department of Defense USAMRAA, Sponsor Award ID: W81XWH-21-1-0412
July 15, 2017 - June 30, 2020 - Simultaneous multi-slice GABA-edited MRSI in the developing brain , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R21HD092660
Education
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, MD/BM, 08/2002, Clinical Medicine
McGill University, QC, Canada, MS, 10/2004, Biochemistry
UC Berkeley/UCSF, CA, USA, PhD, 06/2008, Bioengineer